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Subject: [TRLog] Frequent lock ups
From: mitchell_g@popmail.firn.edu (Grant Mitchell)
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 21:27:10 -0500
Mike,

If you are using a straight DOS machine try adding / changing the
following settings in CONFIG.SYS

BUFFERS=40
FILES=50
STACKS=18,512

The STACKS line is most important.  Good luck.

73, Grant
N4GM

Mike Gilmer - N2MG wrote:
> 
> I'm new to TR... have 6.60.  I am playing in
> the 10m contest in an attempt to get used to it all.
> 
> I am having frequent lock-ups - everything freezes.
> Even CTL-ALT-DEL doesn't work. Need to do a hard
> reboot.  I thought it might be RF (although I have NO
> problem with NA or CT in exactly the same environment)
> so I sprinkled a few ferrite cores around.  Eventually
> I got it to lock up even when I wasn't transmitting -
> I was just checking things in the CTL-J screen, or
> playing with SCP.  Has happened at least a dozen times
> in an hour of operating.
> 
> In an effort to keep things simple, I eliminated all
> the ramdisk/himem/etc. calls I had and then rebooted.
> Problem still occurs.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> 73 Mike N2MG
> 
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